Can you name the 100 greatest plays of all time according to Daniel Burt?

created by johnlk
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  • Correctly named plays will show up below
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  • Burt's "Honorable Mentions" are bonus answers.
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RankPlayAuthor
1.William Shakespeare
2.Sophocles
3.William Shakespeare
4.Aeschylus
5.William Shakespeare
6.Eugene O'Neill
7.William Shakespeare
8.Samuel Beckett
9.Euripides
10.William Shakespeare
11.Henrik Ibsen
12.Anton Chekhov
13.Euripides
14.Oscar Wilde
15.Sophocles
16.Molière
17.William Shakespeare
18.Bertolt Brecht
19.Aristophanes
20.Christopher Marlowe
21.Arthur Miller
22.Georg Büchner
23.Ben Jonson
24.William Shakespeare
25.William Congreve
RankPlayAuthor
26.Tennessee Williams
27.William Shakespeare
28.George Bernard Shaw
29.Samuel Beckett
30.Kalidasa
31.August Strindberg
32.Xianxu Tang
33.Molière
34.Anton Chekhov
35.Pedro Calderón de la Barca
36.Henrik Ibsen
37.Richard Brinsley Sheridan
38.J. M. Synge
39.Eugene O'Neill
40.Chikamatsu
41.Anonymous
42.Tony Kushner
43.William Shakespeare
44.Luigi Pirandello
45.George Bernard Shaw
46Jean Racine
47.William Shakespeare
48.John Osborne
49.Harold Pinter
50.Edward Albee
RankPlayAuthor
51.Sean O'Casey
52.Ben Jonson
53.Euripides
54.George Bernard Shaw
55.Federico García Lorca
56.Pierre de Beaumarchais
57.Tennessee Williams
58.Bertolt Brecht
59.Oliver Goldsmith
60.T. S. Eliot
61.Eugène Ionesco
62.August Strindberg
63.Nikolai Gogol
64.Arthur Miller
65.Peter Weiss
66.Brian Friel
67.John Gay
68.Plautus
69.Jean-Paul Sartre
70.Lorraine Hansberry
71.Thornton Wilder
72.William Wycherley
73.Tom Stoppard
74.Maxim Gorky
75.Noel Coward
RankPlayAuthor
76.Sam Shepard
77.Georges Feydeau
78.David Mamet
79.Alfred Jarry
80.Caryl Churchill
81.W. B. Yeats
82.Jean Cocteau
83.Athol Fugard
84.Zeami Motokiyo
85.Gao Xingjian
86.Lillian Hellman
87.August Wilson
88.S. Ansky
89.Friedrich Dürrenmatt
90.Gerhart Hauptmann
91.Pierre Corneille
92.Aphra Behn
93.Clifford Odets
94.Terence
95.Jean Genet
96.Dario Fo
97.Brendan Behan
98.Wendy Wasserstein
99.Lope de Vega
100.J. M. Barrie
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Drama 100: 100 Greatest Plays Quiz

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